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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's funny to see this presented as a retro "pixel art" program. I mean I suppose it is given that it is based on a program nearly 40 years old, but the example image that is always shown with Deluxe Paint (and on this clone
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by jhbadger 2y ago
For a similar situation today, there is the editor lem which is an Emacs-clone written in Common Lisp (and whose extension language is also Common Lisp).
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Many sushi restaurants around the world are run by non-Japanese Asians (who often have a separate menu for their ethnicity than can be asked for if you know). Where I live (in the Washington, D.C. area) most Latin American people are Salvad
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Or Arthur Conan Doyle who was so fed up with writing Sherlock Holmes stories that he killed the character off (but had to undo that later when it turned out the public wasn't that interested in his non-Holmes stories).
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by jhbadger 2y ago
What about Romania, which is basically the same country (and was before the Soviet Union decided to mess things up)?
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by jhbadger 2y ago
There is a very practical embedable logic-programming engine called miniKanren for many programming languages that can be used to add the logic-programming techniques of Prolog to other languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Because it's a children's film? The movie is about a technological plot to steal the moon. How is that not science fiction?
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by jhbadger 2y ago
That's the standard Star Trek backstory that was even there in the original 1960s series (the Eugenic Wars, and the character of Khan Noonien Singh, the genetically engineered tyrant, were introduced in the 1967 episode "Space See
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Lots of people had computers in the 1980s. Not just "rich people". There were even dozens of magazines about computers that you could find in any bookstore or newsstand. There were stores in every city where you could buy software
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Another similar novel which I liked is Austin Grossman's You (bad title, I know), also about a fictional game studio in the 1980s and 1990s.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
William Gibson's Neuromancer makes that analogy, at least. From the scene where Case is apprehended by the "Turing Police" who regulate the human-level AIs of the setting: >`You are worse than a fool,' Michelle said
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I find remote ones tend to suck more because of the ease of scheduling them. In person meetings need a venue, they have to double check if offsite people can get there in time and they often have a fixed endpoint because other groups need t
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>I don't even think it happened in the USA to the same degree that it did in the UK, thanks to Sir Clive Sinclair's ability to deliver cheap but serviceable and completely hackable units to even modest British homes. I often he
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by jhbadger 2y ago
But there really was a time when famous researchers had blogs and updated them regularly with lengthy posts. Yes, there are a few people like Terence Tao who still keep it up, but the movement away from blogs a decade or so ago in favor of
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I really think that's the answer. Blog traffic fell off when Reader was killed and a lot of bloggers stopped blogging and moved to Twitter.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
That's amazing. I always wondered about watching old (1930s-1950s) movies where they would give credits to the lead cast at the start and just end with a "The End" card with no credits. I always wondered if they just cut the
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's still somewhat common, but over the past couple of decades we've created package managers like QuickLisp that allow calling external dependencies in Common Lisp as easy as it is in Python (and even systems to allow us to inte
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by jhbadger 2y ago
But Boeing is the only remaining US-based manufacturer of airliners (among other things). This didn't used to be the case, but through mergers and acquisitions it's true today. There is just no way the US government would ever let
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The fact is IRB (ethics boards) weren't really a thing until 1974, and even then mostly for human subjects, It wasn't until the 1980s when most places considered mouse research to require an IRB.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Hammurabi (which as mentioned in another comment seems to be a later rewrite of this) was very popular in schools in the 1980s. As was "Lemonade Stand", which at first glance seems to have nothing to do with Hammurabi, but the sty
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by jhbadger 2y ago
He had an interesting non-Disney Beauty and the Beast movie from 2014 that is worth watching if you liked Brotherhood of the Wolf. International reviews were more critical of it, but it was well received in France, at least. https:/&#
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Yes, I know that quote is used to make fun of Internet nay-sayers, but I think younger people underestimate just how important fax machines were even as late as the early 2000s (and reportedly, they are still popular in Japan, where handwri
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by jhbadger 2y ago
To a degree. But a lot of the weirdness of the KJV (like how it mentions "unicorns" nine times despite the ancient Hebrews having no concept of that mythological beast) seem to be because the translators were also using a lot of t
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I wonder at what point we can just assume decades belong to the current century. Will "the twenties" in the US always primarily mean Prohibition, flappers, and Al Capone or will it ever mean this decade?
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Exactly. Historians often talk about things like "the long 18th century" running from 1688 (Britian's "Glorious Revolution") to 1815 (the defeat of Napoleon) because it makes sense culturally to have periods that do
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Hence the old saying "the only truly intuitive user interface is the nipple".
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And even earlier Samuel Butler in 1863 (hence the "Butlerian Jihad" against AI in Dune). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Also called "stale beer" spy fiction to emphasize its lack of glamour and that settings like dive bars are more common in it than fancy casinos and cocktail parties. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php&#x2F
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I looked it up and it seems to just be a typical driverless train, more or less the same as is found in airports for changing terminals, except that this is longer than those. It might be a good service, but not quite as exciting as your de
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by jhbadger 2y ago
He's talking about 50 years or so ago -- he was there during the glory days of PARC.

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